February 12, 2019 at 1:47 am (Artists and Writers, Books, Links, Recommended)
Tags: Cambridge, Cee Neuner, England, English writers, fantasy, favorites, His Dark Materials, Lyra Belacqua, Mondays, Oxford, Philip Pullman, reading lists, Will Parry
You have to look hard in a few of these, but they definitely all DO have Orange and Pink.
Thanks again to Cee Neuner for the Fun Foto Challenge!
Redwood City, California: January 2019
London: 3 December 2018
Heffers, Trinity Street, Cambridge: 23 November 2018
Can you tell how much self loves Philip Pullman? She read all the books on this table in the first few months of 2018. She knew that when she got to Oxford, she would look for as many Philip Pullman-related sites as she could.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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February 1, 2019 at 3:12 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Links, Places, Recommended, Tel Aviv, Traveling)
Tags: art, Cee Neuner, England, Fridays, Israel, literary festivals, poetry
Thanks once again to Cee Neuner for the Fun Foto Challenge!
Last October, self was in the historic English town of Winchester, which was hosting a Poetry Festival. The next Winchester Poetry Festival will be October 2020.
Winchester, England: City Map, October 2018
Tel Aviv Artist Reuven Rubin
A friend made this bag for self.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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January 24, 2019 at 4:18 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Holidays, Links, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: art, Cambridge, Cee Neuner, England, Events, exhibits, London, museums, translation
This week, Cee Neuner’s Fun Foto Challenge is BLUE AND YELLOW.
As it’s a grey and chilly morning where self is, the Blue and Yellow will come from her archives.
Here’s a picture she took in Heathrow, December 2018. Somewhat blue and yellow:
The Oceania Exhibit at the Royal Academy of Art in London. The yellow is in the gilt frames on the wall.
Finally, sign on a sidewalk in front of Blackwell’s bookstore in Cambridge, England. Blue and Yellow, upper right-hand corner:
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 31, 2018 at 6:11 pm (Books, destinations, Links, Personal Bookshelf, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: England, fantasy, inspiration, London, Mondays, Oxford, Philip Pullman, pilgrimage
Much thanks to sonofabeach96 for the prompt, which sent self back to her archive of photographs, taken during her most recent trip:
London Alley, 20 November 2018
Rainy Night, London, 20 November 2018
Wolvercote, the Ruins of Godstow Abbey in the distance, 16 November 2018: Philip Pullman’s LA BELLE SAUVAGE led self here. (When’s Book 2, The Secret Commonwealth, coming out? Been waiting a long, long time!)
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December 30, 2018 at 11:25 pm (destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, Places, Sundays, Traveling)
Tags: Durham, England, London, Philadelphia, photography, restaurants
Showing the ways people move from one place to another on land: roads, walkways, stairs, elevators, escalators, railway tracks, ski lifts, runways, canals, locks, parking lots, driveways, tunnels.
The Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant, Downtown Philadelphia, 5 December 2018
Crossing Over the River Wear, Durham, 29 November 2018
Millenium Bridge, London, 22 November 2018
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 22, 2018 at 1:56 am (Books, Lists, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: book lists, England, English writers, fantasy, favorites, Fridays, His Dark Materials, mysteries, novel, Oxford, Philip Pullman, reading lists, science fiction, Will Parry
How did self end up selecting these three?
The books may have been far from perfect — self thinks, in particular, of the first two — but they were the books she found herself re-reading, despite their flaws:
- Dead Letters, by Caite Dolan-Leach: Bravo, Dolan-Leach. Self has not been able to dislodge the dysfunctional Antipova twins and their yummy boy toy, Wyatt Darling, from her thoughts since she read this, Dolan-Leach’s first novel, mid-November.
- Autonomous, by Annalee Newitz: Beat out a host of other science fiction self read this year, including All Systems Red, Book 1 of The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells; and Jade City, by Fonda Lee. The book lived because of a character named Threezed.
- The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman: Vol. 2 of His Dark Materials killed self in every way. If not exactly perfect, it was close. Will Parry forever. The book did such a number on her that she went to Oxford to see Will and Lyra’s bench, in the Oxford Botanical Garden.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 13, 2018 at 5:53 am (destinations, Links, Places, Traveling, Weather)
Tags: Cee Neuner, England, London, Oxford
All gratitude to Cee Neuner, for a prompt that allowed self to share these pictures, taken during her latest trip. She’d never have thought of posting them otherwise.
Traveling in winter is hard, self didn’t know just how hard until she was in the middle of the trip.
Blackfriar Train Station, London, November 2018
The Millenium Bridge, London, November 2018
Oxford Street Market, November 2018
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December 10, 2018 at 5:24 pm (Books, Lists, Memoirs, Recommended, Sundays, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: book lists, British authors, Cambridge, England, humor, literary festivals, Mondays, nonfiction, novel, reading lists, translation
During the 2018 Cambridge Literary Festival, writers spoke and gave readings and fired up self’s imagination. Though the list below is heavy on British authors, their books are no doubt available here (in the U.S.)
- Flights and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, by Olga Tokarczuk
- Holding and A Keeper, by Graham Norton
- Building and Dwelling, by Richard Sennett
- In Extremis: The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin, by Lindsey Hilsum
- The Stopping Places, by Damian LeBas
- What a Carve Up! and The Rotters Club, by Jonathan Coe
- Hello World: How To Be Human in the Age of the Machine, by Hannah Fry
- The Merchant of Syria, by Diana Darke
- Seven Types of Atheism, by John Gray
- The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak
- We That Are Young, by Preti Taneja
- Let Us Sing Anyway, by Leone Ross
- Take Nothing With You, by Patrick Gale
- On This Day in History, by Dan Snow
- All Along the Barley, by Melissa Harrison
- The Light in the Dark, by Horatio Clare
- The Essex Serpent and Melmoth, by Sarah Perry
- Ghost Wall, by Sarah Moss
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December 5, 2018 at 6:22 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Movies, Places, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: Cee Neuner, England, humor, indulgence, London, memories, museums, Oxford, restaurants
Self loves posting for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge. It gives her a chance to post photographs from her archives that might otherwise be overlooked. Such as the close-up of her bedside lamp at The Penn Club, where she stays whenever she is in London:
Room # 1, The Penn Club: Bedford Place, London
Or this tea-set:
London Review Cakeshop: Bury St., London
Or this amusing pair of socks:
Gift Shop, Ashmolean: Oxford, England
Thank you, Cee Neuner, for the prompt!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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December 1, 2018 at 1:42 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Personal Bookshelf, Recommended, Traveling, Women Writers)
Tags: England, exhibits, history, interviews, London, Nobel, nonfiction, Russia, Saturday, war literature
Self saw the exhibit Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms at the British Library this morning. Despite the fact that she got there practically at opening, the exhibit was very crowded. And she is short. And all the people between her and the display cases seemed very tall. Nevertheless, she is glad she went. On one wall is a quote, dating from the late 11th century. Which is to say, after the Norman Conquest. She forgot to note the identity of the writer, but guesses it must have been a monk:
Nothing has gone well for a long time now. There has been harrying and hunger, burning and bloodshed.
She returned to her rooms and resumed reading Svetlana Alexievich’s oral history of Russian women soldiers: The Unwomanly Face of War. From the essay that begins the book (A Human Being Is Greater Than War):
‘Women’s’ war has its own colors, its own smells, its own lighting, and its own range of feelings. Its own words . . . And it is not only they (people) who suffer, but the earth, the birds, the trees.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
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